Illustration for The Discretion, from the adult visual novel The Clerk's Window

TamsinYou have been choosing. For four years, every Friday, you have been choosing, and nobody in this school knows they are living in a building where the choice happens.

HalvardYes.

TamsinThat is the worst thing anybody has ever said to me in this building and I cannot work out why I am not angry.

HalvardBecause it is a relief. Somebody is deciding and it is not a formula. The formula is a story we tell students so they can believe the number means something.

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